---
type: "Bill"
title: "eliminate the cap on assessment amounts for road improvements."
description: "eliminate the cap on assessment amounts for road improvements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1173"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1173 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways and Bridges", "Procurement of Public Improvements"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Kolbeck (Steve)", "Kull", "Muckey", "Perry", "Pourier", "Sjaarda"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e168f12-b73a-4c0e-8426-efc2892b8f81"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26027"
source_hash: "b3ae4ac3333df6d7f1eae7c81766a9bced5ec45b881b0bb4d197371afe33afa5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sd"]
---

# South Dakota HB 1173 (2025) — eliminate the cap on assessment amounts for road improvements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26027/279158)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26027/282984)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **61–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Steve) — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Sjaarda — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 154
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 171 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-11** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 271
- **2025-02-13** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 7 H.J. 291 `passage`
- **2025-02-18** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 279 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-21** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 355 `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 401 `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Signed by the President S.J. 397 `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-27 H.J. 418 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-05 H.J. 458 `executive-signature, executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e168f12-b73a-4c0e-8426-efc2892b8f81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).